A costume design for Louis XIV as The Rising Sun from the final entree of Le Ballet de la Nuit ; the title of Sun King for the French monarch, originated in Louis XIV's role in Jean-Baptiste Lully's Ballet de la Nuit (1653) ; the fourteen-year-old...

A costume design for Louis XIV as The Rising Sun from the final entree of Le Ballet de la Nuit ; the title of Sun King for the French monarch, originated in Louis XIV's role in Jean-Baptiste Lully's Ballet de la Nuit (1653) ; the fourteen-year-old...